Monthly Archives: June 2012

Woodland Park Zoo has a little slice of Thailand in their elephant habitat, complete with a village area, a model of a temple and elephants, of course. 45th Street boasts several fine Thai restaurants that can leave you with a longing to travel. But if a trip overseas isn’t in your immediate future, you can still immerse yourself in Thai culture by hosting a foreign exchange student.

Wallyhood reader Janell writes that the International Student Exchange (ISE) is seeking a host family for a 16-year-old boy from Thailand who will be attending Roosevelt High School …

You wouldn’t know it, but it’s summer time. If you’re looking for daytime parking anywhere near the John Stanford or Hamilton schools, this will be obvious to you. Also, if you have a school age child who is staring at you at half past nine in the morning with a “OK, so what now” look on his face.

And that is what the Good Lord made summer camps for: opening up the horizons of children, introducing them to nature and exploratory play, and giving harried parents a brief, flickering respite from the cyclone of chaos that is childrearing.

Seattle author and futurist Rob Salkowitz will be at Comics Dungeon (250 NE 45th St) this Saturday, June 30th from 1 – 4 pm supporting his new book: COMIC-CON AND THE BUSINESS OF POP CULTURE: What the World’s Wildest Trade Show Can Tell Us About the Future of Entertainment

The story of “The Con’s” evolution from meek to monster mirrors the legendary transformations of comics’ most iconic superheroes. In 1970, a few hardcore fans assembled to trade issues and meet the pros; over the decades Comic-Con has mutated into a fearsome creature, with tentacles reaching into all forms of media.…

As any good Wallingfordian knows, sunny + 70 = summer! Happily, today’s lovely weather coincides with the opening of Wallingford’s wading pool. The Wallingford wading pool will be open Wednesday-Saturday from noon to 7 pm through August 17th. As you may remember, the Saturday hours are made possible by Ask.com, which awarded them to three Seattle wading pools following a contest in May.

So, take a minute to soak your feet (or your kids) in the wading pool on your way up to …

Wallyhood welcomes our newest sponsor, Cometa Playschool (4106 Stone Way North), a neighborhood preschool offering Spanish language immersion. It’s ideal for tots who will be enrolled in the language immersion programs at John Stanford International School or McDonald Elementary.

Students at Cometa are also exposed to world cultures through play and music, and they learn about their role as a global citizen. Once a year, the school participates in community service, and in the past, they’ve done a food drive for Northwest Harvest and have worked with sisterschools.org to help donate to schools in Uganda, East Africa.

Emerald City Spirits (118 NE 45th St), previously the Washington State Liquor Store across from Dick’s. And, much to our surprise it looked like…a liquor store!

Yep, things are mostly unchanged inside, although the selection of liquor seems to have expanded slightly, especially in the Scotch section. But, whereas before it was owned by the State, now it’s owned by the Niesel family, three generations of them: Chet and Nancy, Sean and Greg.

They purchased the business from the state, and, as such, didn’t know exactly what their stock would be when they took it over. The stock they ended …

The transformation of the old Beeliner Diner / abandoned building into the TNT Taqueria (see our May story, ‘Chows Foods to open ‘TNT Taqueria‘ for more info) is making progress, including the addition of a walk-up window.

Along foodie lines, we noticed in the comments section of that post this unanswered question from Abigail:

Please, foodies, post the name of a place to get a delicious , genuine, maybe even grass fed hamburger in Wallingford. Uneeda is outstanding but that’s over near the zoo.

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This week’s editor is ​Jack McLaughlin. You can contact the editor-of-the-week at [email protected].

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